Monday, September 19, 2011

Claim

See: Aggressive, crowded, dark, strange, grotesque
Setting: alive, crazy, wild, deep, curious, helpless, odd, vast
Hear: loud, hissing, harsh, high-pitched, screeching, mute,

Claim:
In this Walton Ford painting, I can see the aggressiveness of the peacock, the craziness of the wild, how helpless the snake is to the curious peacock. The strangeness of the birds tail on fire, how the birds crowd to see the grotesque scene. I can just imagine the loud hissing of the snake, the high-pitched sound of the birds cooing, and the screeching once the peacock decides to become wild and roughly capture his pray.